[gentoo-dev] cvs.eclass usage with offline computer

[gentoo-dev] cvs.eclass usage with offline computer

[torbenh]

hi....

i would like to determine what is necessary to make cvs.eclass work for
me.

i need to 
laptop# emerge -f ardour-cvs 
desktop# rsync distfiles
desktop# emerge ardour-cvs

the fetching is done in src_unpack()

this does not work for my setup.

so the fetch mechanism should be able to interpret urls like
cvs:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/bla:module_name

this could be hooked in where the mirror stuff lives.

i am not sure if this would make cvs.eclass obsolete.



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torben Hohn
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Re: [gentoo-dev] cvs.eclass usage with offline computer

[Dan Armak]

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Hi,

If you just want to make cvs.eclass-based things to work offline, you can 
export ECVS_SERVER=offline and they will use the already-checked-out sources 
without attempting to update them. This cannot be automatized further because  
unlike other ebuilds which have digests etc, for live cvs ebuilds there can 
be no 'already fetched' condition.

That leaves the issue of having them update the sources, but not compile them, 
when you emerge -f. For this we indeed need portage-side support, but not too 
much. Say, allowing ebuilds to redefine src_fetch (as it did once, I don't 
think we can do that now) and, for cvs ebuilds, always calling src_fetch 
regardless of the digest and SRC_URI.

This is all a todo for me - for the medium future :-)

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Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux developer (KDE)
Matan, Israel
Public GPG key: http://cvs.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key

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